These days 8.0 megapixel has become the new standard for competetion among the mobile manufacturers. We’ve yet to see the 8MP Samsung Innov8 to hit store shelves and here’s yet another one coming out of Samsung’s door — Pixon M8800.

The new Samsung M8800 Pixon is another high-end camera phone Launched by samsung. It features some of the most cutting edge technology you can see in today’s mobile phones.

Its arsenal of amazing features includes a powerful 8.0 mega pixel built in auto focus camera with LED flash capabilities and lens protection. This mobile phone also has an amazing 3.2-inch LCD touch screen display that can match the awesome photos that its camera can take.

Yet another phone that’s more like a camera. The Samsung Pixon’s 8 megapixel camera can do 16x digital zoom with dual-power LED Flash, Advance Shake Reduction, Face , Smile Shot, Face Tagging, Geo-Tagging, Auto Panorama Shot. It can record video up to 720×480 pixels at 30 fps, QVGA at 120 fps MPEG4/DivX and Xvid).

Also has 3G/HSDPA (up to 7.2 Mbps) connectivity in a 3.2 inch display (240×400), 5.1 channel virtual surround sound, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth and TV-Out.

 The Samsung M8800 Pixon is equipped with geo-tagging, auto-panorama shot, face, digital image stabilization, smile and blink detection. These are some of the features that make the Samsung M8800 a contender for the best camera phone in the market today. The photographs taken on the phone can be edited and users can even make a photo memo by scribbling on the photos. The phone also facilitates easy mobile blogging. For scrolling through images, flick control may have been one thing, but the Pixon takers it to a whole new level with what I’m calling ‘tilt-to-scroll’. It also has video recording capability and TV output for both PAL and NTSC systems.

It also has many features useful to treat it as a business phone. It has TV out functionality that allows users to plug into a TV and view the contents of the phone. Data storage capacity of 200 MB makes it the perfect device to store personal files and data.It is also very slim in comparison to another 8.0 megpixel mobile phones in the market today.

“Samsung Pixon is made for users who want to experience the best multimedia entertainment on their mobile phone with the ease of a touch. Right from enjoying music and videos on the 8.1cm wide full touch screen, to high quality image and video capturing, to sharing them with their friends and family, Samsung Pixon offers consumers the real benefit of mobile entertainment,” said Sunil Dutt, Country Head, Samsung Telecom Division.

Samsung Pixon is also ideal for enthusiastic gamers as it comes pre-embedded with a host of popular games like Brain Challenge, Diamond Twister and Millionaire-3. Apart from these, users can also enjoy the motion-sensor based game – Tumbling Dice.

Specifications of Samsung Pixon m8800

• Quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA
• 107.9×54.6×14.9mm, 110 g
•  A 3.2-inch WQVGA (240 x 400 pixels) touchscreen featuring Samsung’s TouchWiz UI with auto screen rotation
• 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, auto focus, face recognition with smile detection and blink detection, WDR (wide dynamic range), ASR (advanced shake reduction), GPS geotagging, ISO 1600,WVGA (720×480 pixels) and VGA (640 x 480 pixels) @30fps video recording
•  Built-in GPS receiver
•  3G (HSDPA), GPRS/EDGE
•  Accelerometer
•  DivX, Xvid, mp4 file support
•  FM radio with RDS
•  Music Player with SRS 3D surround sound
•  microSD card slot
•  Bluetooth with A2DP and USB 2.0 (micro)
•  Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard
•  Handwriting recognition
•  ShoZu integration – direct image and video upload
• Office document viewer

 Indian price of Samsung Pixon

The SAMSUNG Pixon official price in Indian market is Rs. 28,750 which is almost Rs. 20,000 less than the INNOV8. Some unverified reports say that you can grab this phone at an approx. price of Rs. 21000 to 23000 in some exchange offers.